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| title        = ''Mug-O-Matic''
| image        = PW Mug-O-Matic logo.png
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| developer    = DigiToy Entertainment
| series       = 
| genre        = Entertainment, digital photography
| engine       = 
| director     = 
| producer     = Jim Lambert
| designer     = 
| programmer   = 
| artist       = 
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| composer     = 
| product_id   = ''[[List of unreleased Pippin titles#Cancelled titles|unknown]]'' (Pippin US)
| publisher    = 
| distributor  = [[Bandai|Bandai Digital Entertainment]]
| platform     = [[Macintosh]]<br/>[[Pippin @WORLD]]<br/>[[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| release_date = ''[[List of unreleased Pippin titles#Cancelled titles|cancelled]]''
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'''''Mug-O-Matic''''' is a [[CD-ROM]]-based entertainment title that was announced by [[Bandai|Bandai Digital Entertainment]] for the [[Pippin @WORLD]] console.<ref name="bandai-usa-96">[http://web.archive.org/web/19961020194706/http://www.bdec.com:80/d/00-frm.html Other BDE Titles], Bandai Digital Entertainment USA. Archived 1996-10-20.</ref>

==Release status==
''Mug-O-Matic'' was being developed by DigiToy Entertainment and had been promoted on Bandai Digital Entertainment's website in October 1996:<ref name="bandai-usa-96" /><ref name="linkedin-lambertjim">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/lambertjim/ Jim Lambert - Co-founder/Inventor, DigiToy], LinkedIn. Accessed 2017-12-15.</ref>
<blockquote>"Take a blank face and add all sorts of facial characteristics that will provide hours of laughter for the whole family."</blockquote>
It was also described in ''[[MacUser]]'' (USA) magazine as "a face-compositing toy".<ref name="MacUser-1996-09">[http://vintageapple.org/macuser/pdf/MacUser_9609_September_1996.pdf Playtime for Pippin] by Carolyn Bickford, ''MacUser'' p.27. Ziff-Davis. 1995-09.</ref> At the time, [[Apple Computer]]'s Pippin [[SDK]] offered webcam support for the Connectix [[wikipedia:QuickCam|QuickCam]].<ref name="journal-pippin-webcam">[https://www.journaldulapin.com/2016/08/27/pippin-quickcam/ The Pippin could have had a webcam] (French) by Pierre Dandumont, ''Le Journal du Lapin''. 2016-08-27.</ref><ref name="journal-pippin-webcam2">[https://www.journaldulapin.com/2020/03/22/pippin-connectix/ La Pippin aurait pu avoir une webcam (bis)] (French) by Pierre Dandumont, ''Le Journal du Lapin''. 2020-03-22.</ref>

However, ''Mug-O-Matic'' was dropped from Bandai's lineup by 1997 and was [[List of unreleased Pippin titles|not released]].<ref name="bandai-usa-97">[http://web.archive.org/web/19970712144727/http://www.bdec.com:80/d/00-frm.html Other BDE Titles], Bandai Digital Entertainment USA. Archived 1997-07-12.</ref><ref name="journal-pippin-games">[http://www.journaldulapin.com/2016/08/06/les-jeux-jamais-sortis-de-la-pippin/ The unreleased games of Pippin] (French) by Pierre Dandumont, Journal du Lapin. 2016-08-06.</ref><ref name="lostlevels-bandai-pippin">[http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=34284&sid=75de9c377e63656b8c91d46f887f644f Bandai Pippin] by eSPy, Lost Levels Forums. 2014-11-05.</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" captionalign="center" bordercolor="transparent" widths="140">
PW Mug-O-Matic interface eyechange.gif|User interface demo of "eye change".
PW Mug-O-Matic interface eyeroll.gif|User interface demo of "eye roll".
PW Mug-O-Matic interface mouthchange.gif|User interface demo of "mouth change".
PW Mug-O-Matic interface nosespin.gif|User interface demo of "nose spin".
</gallery>

==References==
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==See also==
*''[[CineNoir]]''
*''[[Movioke]]''

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19970419012209/http://www.digitoy.com:80/mug.html ''Mug-O-Matic''] at DigiToy Entertainment (archived 1997-04-19)
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